Top 247 Pittsburgh Quotes & Sayings

Nice people around Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh was the first chance to be in a classroom with other writers, to have conversations with other writers. In fact, after graduate school, I lived in Japan, Ohio and New Orleans, and only upon leaving Pittsburgh did I see what a special community it was for poets, so I was eager to come back. It's a strong arts community across the board.

Pittsburgh is an underdog city because it's been in a recession for a really long time, since the steel industry collapsed, so it has this underdog mentality. Yeah, there are a lot of people who are conservative, but I also think they want to rally around their Pittsburgh people.

I love the city of Pittsburgh.

First of all, when I was making the decision, I never thought that Pittsburgh fans would want me back. Every time I played there, they were booing me every time I touched the puck. I didn't think it would be such a big deal that I didn't sign with Pittsburgh.

I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of Pittsburgh.

Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.

When I first went to Pittsburgh, I had never been there before, and we hadn't even decided to shoot there yet. I just went to see the location of Michael Chabon's novel. Once there, I became aware that Pittsburgh is a "wonder boy," in the narrow sense of the term, just as the human characters are.

I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So I come from an amazing sports town.

I do have friends in Pittsburgh, and I had some wonderful experiences there.

Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between.

I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh and happiness high up. The only way to leave even the smallest trace. So that all his life her son would feel gladness unaccountably when anyone spoke of the ruined city of steel in America. Each time almost remembering something maybe important that got lost.

I did theater at Carnegie, and in Pittsburgh and New York.

Pittsburgh is kind of like Newark without the cultural advantages.

I worked at a PBS station called WQED in Pittsburgh.

Sharon Needles is definitely Pittsburgh - always rough around the edges, a little ignorant, a little uneducated. And she's dead. And Pittsburgh is, after all, the zombie capital of the world, a little financially lower class, and just all-around a gritty, rough city.

Do you play football for Pittsburgh? Then why are you such a Steeler?!

Spring and summer in Pittsburgh mean outdoor festivals.

I am Pittsburgh proud, I root for the Steelers and I still have my Terrible Towel!

Pittsburgh felt like the perfect size of a city to me. There's enough to do, but it's not like living in a circus. I also really loved how sports-enthusiastic Pittsburgh people are: how proud of their sports they are.

Pittsburgh is a very unique place.

I just wanted to say hi to Pittsburgh as well because I miss it.

I want to be a Pittsburgh Steeler. I'm happy that I'm still a Pittsburgh Steeler. Hopefully we can work out a long-term deal, and I can be a Steeler for my entire career.

I'm not sure Mario is going to get accolafes he deserves, especially from outside the game. But from within, the players, the people who follow closely, realize exactly what he's broughtto the table, exactly what he has done. People tend to forget... hockey was dying in Pittsburgh before he got there. I played there. It was almost dead. I'm sorry, but the NHL would not have a franchise in Pittsburgh today had Mario not come along. Think about it, no hockey in Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing.

I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.

Mario Lemieux is Mr. Pittsburgh.

My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.

Pittsburgh's home. This is where it all started. This is always going to be home. I always have to get back to Pittsburgh and get some work done.

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.

You know what I'm realizing? I always love a place if I like the movie I'm doing there. I've heard people say, 'I hate Pittsburgh,' and I'm like, 'I love Pittsburgh so much!' I loved what I was doing there, and I loved Austin for the same reason.

The good thing about Pittsburgh, it's a good place to be raised... it doesn't tolerate assholes. You're either a good guy or you're a bad guy... When I'm in Los Angeles having these incredibly surreal moments where nobody's saying anything and everybody's talking incessantly, I always have that Pittsburgh voice in my head - shut up, smile, get the job, move on.

I was the first female cab driver in the city of Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh is a football town.

I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.

Pittsburgh entered the core of my heart when I was a boy and cannot be torn out.

I am a Pittsburgh girl at heart.

I didn't speak English until I came to Pittsburgh.

I don't ever remember having any bad times here in Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh is a very hard city, especially if you're black.

Pittsburgh is home. I was born there, and it will always have priority in that respect.

I'm so grateful to America and my hometown of Pittsburgh. I love my city. I'm proud of being from here.

I could never imagine myself living anywhere but Pittsburgh.

[Two Evil Eyes] was shot in Pittsburgh, and that's where I was born and raised, so it was really nice to be a part of Pittsburgh film culture.

No offense to anybody from Pittsburgh, but Pittsburgh wasn't for me.

When I was younger, growing up in Pittsburgh, they had a 'Golden Gloves' program through the Boys and Girls Club. In Pittsburgh, New York, Philly, Washington, those areas, I would go and spar at competitions.

Pittsburgh is a great organization.

We're a road team. We're the Pittsburgh Steelers. We have fans everywhere.

I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?

I think things will work out for the greater good for not only me but the city of Pittsburgh. I'm extremely grateful to get out in the community of Pittsburgh and not only play the game but affect other people and kids in that regard, and I'm excited about the whole process of that.

It's really terrific to see Pittsburgh recognize the Mattress Factory.

Yes, I would have rather finished up in Pittsburgh.

I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?

I miss Pittsburgh.

I learned how to navigate the world, and life's potholes, in Pittsburgh.

The road to the Super Bowl runs through Pittsburgh, sooner or later you've got to go to Pittsburgh.

I became a poet in Pittsburgh. When I lived in the South, I was a basketball player and primarily a jock. An English teacher essentially suggested that I send the poems that I'd been writing - really just for him - to a few programs, so that when I wound up in Pittsburgh, it's where I figured out that I could actually be a poet.

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.

I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris. It is time to put Youngstown, Ohio; Detroit, Michigan; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; along with many, many other locations within our great country, before Paris, France. It is time to make America great again.

I want to reward this city. Pittsburgh is a great hockey town.